A Wisconsin county judge has been convicted of a felony charge following a four-day trial on allegations that she helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.
Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was convicted late Thursday of felony obstruction of proceedings before a U.S. agency stemming from an April incident at the county courthouse, All Rise News reported. She was acquitted on a misdemeanor count of unlawful concealment of an individual subject to arrest.
Authorities said she helped an undocumented immigrant evade agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by directing him and his attorney through a private courtroom exit while agents waited in the hallway.
Dugan’s attorney, Jason Luczak, appeared to warn jurors earlier in the day that the decision to prosecute the judge could be traced to President Donald Trump.
“Make no mistake: This went all the way up to the top,” Luczak said, according to Adam Klasfeld of All Rise News. “This went all the way up the government.”
“Finding Dugan guilty following ‘an unprecedented trial’ would ‘green-light prosecutions’ of judges, sending a ‘chilling effect’ that will harm access to justice in the United States, Luczak said,” according to Klasfeld.
“They’re trying to make an example of Hannah Dugan,” Luczak said. “They’re trying to besmirch her reputation, her honest reputation.”
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